{"id":87857,"date":"2026-04-16T15:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87857"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:22:35","slug":"alzheimers-drugs-make-no-meaningful-difference-to-patients-say-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/alzheimers-drugs-make-no-meaningful-difference-to-patients-say-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s drugs \u2018make no meaningful difference to patients\u2019, say researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1GZlQR.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Donanemab and lecanemab are targeted antibody drugs that slow down the early stages of Alzheimer\u2019s (Alamy\/PA) -\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Drugs that are said to slow the progression of Alzheimer\u2019s disease \u201cmake no meaningful difference to patients\u201d while increasing the risk of swelling and bleeding\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/alzheimer-s-drugs-make-no-meaningful-difference-to-patients-say-researchers\/ar-AA20ZKkd?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69e0faec269c47c78f291f0f6ad89f24&amp;ei=38\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Drugs that are said to slow the progression of Alzheimer\u2019s disease \u201cmake no meaningful difference to patients\u201d while increasing the risk of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Alzheimer-progression.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87858,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87857\/revisions\/87858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}